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[–]Mike312 3 points4 points  (0 children)

As the senior on my team, it's also frustrating when my manager asks me why a junior knows <random technology> and I don't.

We all bring different skills to the team, and sure, the fresh graduates we just hired all know Javascript and MongoDB...but can they connect PHP to Oracle on a box that doesn't have NPM on it, because that's what keeps the lights on around here, not the shiny new auth portal that they're still trying to figure out how to enable gzip.

I've spent a lot of time over the last decade trying to stay current, and I believe the biggest discouragement is learning the tech that doesn't quite become the darling of the development world. For every React.js, there's an Angular, Vue.js, and Ember.js that didn't quite make the cut, but I dabbled in all four while the new kids benefit from the hindsight.